Archaeological Evidences With archaeological evidences, we can deduce whether Singapore was a vibrant trading city as early as the 14th century or not.
Archaeologists unearthed fragments of blue-and-white Chinese porcelain that belonged to the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) and the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). There were also more than 30,000 others, such as compass, wine cup and coins from China and Sri Lanka, 15th century Thai and Vietnamese porcelain, fragments of glazed pottery of late 14th century,stoneware jar, ancient gold ornaments etc.
This video above gives you some short insight about how archaeologist dig for evidences such as ancient gold ornaments as stated earlier. Its good extra-information.
How does these foreign items end up in Singapore? IF Singapore was a trading port and traders from all over the world had come to Singapore, ALL of these will logically make sense. If Singapore wasn't, there should not be existence of such artefacts.Thus, such artefacts were evidences of Singapore before 1819 AND its previous existence as a prosperous port.
Now, we have fit pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of Singapore before 1819 together and we finally understand from those clues what Singapore was like in the 13-15th century. Congragulations!
Now, lets summarize...
Types of evidence
evidence in Singapore
Accounts
Wang Dayuan's records
anecdotes
Sejarah Melayu(Malay Annals)
Archaeological evidences
Singapore stone,compass, wine cup and coins from China and Sri Lanka, 15th century Thai and Vietnamese porcelain, fragments of glazed pottery of late 14th century,stoneware jar, ancient gold ornaments
With archaeological evidences, we can deduce whether Singapore was a vibrant trading city as early as the 14th century or not.
Archaeologists unearthed fragments of blue-and-white Chinese porcelain that belonged to the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) and the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). There were also more than 30,000 others, such as compass, wine cup and coins from China and Sri Lanka, 15th century Thai and Vietnamese porcelain, fragments of glazed pottery of late 14th century,stoneware jar, ancient gold ornaments etc.
This video above gives you some short insight about how archaeologist dig for evidences such as ancient gold ornaments as stated earlier.
Its good extra-information.
How does these foreign items end up in Singapore?
IF Singapore was a trading port and traders from all over the world had come to Singapore, ALL of these will logically make sense. If Singapore wasn't, there should not be existence of such artefacts.Thus, such artefacts were evidences of Singapore before 1819 AND its previous existence as a prosperous port.
Now, we have fit pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of Singapore before 1819 together and we finally understand from those clues what Singapore was like in the 13-15th century. Congragulations!
Now, lets summarize...
Sri Lanka, 15th century Thai and Vietnamese porcelain,
fragments of glazed pottery of late 14th century,stoneware
jar, ancient gold ornaments
Now lets move on to the founding of Singapore